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Dow Jones Futures: Stocks Break Decisively On Fed Chief Powell; Tesla, Google, Microsoft In Focus
Dow Jones futures edged higher Thursday night, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. The stock market rally suffered…
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Amazon Care, Intermountain form coalition to push for CMS home care reimbursement changes
Home-based care companies, including Amazon Care, and two health systems are lobbying Congress to make permanent changes to home health…
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Oil Jumps On Shocking OPEC+ Move As Saudis Brush Off Shale; ‘Drill, Baby, Drill, Is Gone Forever’
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and key partners will extend most of the current output cuts, sending oil…
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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Good and Not-So-Good News on Covid
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. There’s good news and bad news on covid-19 this week.…
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D.C. power shift complicates Fed decision on capital rule
WASHINGTON — Pressure continues to mount on the Federal Reserve from both sides as the central bank mulls an extension…
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What Actually Is ‘COVID Arm’?
If you got a COVID-19 vaccine and you developed a swollen red rash at the injection site several days later,…
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Gold in $1,600 Territory As U.S. Bond Yields, Dollar Spike Again By Investing.com
© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – The resolve of the gold bull is facing an all-new test with prices…
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Fed orders Nano Banc in California to reduce CRE concentration
The holding companies of Nano Banc in Irvine, Calif., have agreed to take a series of steps to improve the…
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Kaiser Permanente, Big Player in State Vaccine Effort, Has Had Trouble Vaccinating Own Members
As managed-care giant Kaiser Permanente assumes a prominent role in California’s new covid-19 vaccination strategy, it is drawing mixed reviews…
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NBA All-Star Game referees all HBCU grads
For the first time in league history, the NBA will have a referee crew composed entirely of graduates of historically…
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Dow Jones Dives 500 Points As Powell Speech Slams Stock Market, Boosts Bond Yields
The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed nearly 500 points Thursday, after Fed Chief Jerome Powell’s speech boosted bond yields and…
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What Happens When You Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?
By now, you’ve seen friends and loved ones post pictures of their COVID-19 vaccination cards on social media. Those posts…
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Bahrain limits ticket sales to vaccinated and COVID-19 recovered fans
Tickets have gone on sale for Formula One’s season opening Bahrain Grand Prix but are limited to individuals who have…
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CDFIs, minority-owned banks to get $9B from Treasury for COVID relief
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department is investing $9 billion into community development financial Institutions and minority depository institutions as a…
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Then and now: A ‘megadrought’ in California
The latest update from the US Drought Monitor in December 2020, showed that much of the country’s western states were…
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London celebrates but for Deliveroo IPO to succeed, it needs to deliver
The City’s future will be delivered by bicycle. It may not match what was ordered. Deliveroo on Thursday made formal…
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Enough vaccines by May doesn’t mean Memorial Day Weekend will be a free-for-all
As more and more people in the US are getting vaccinated every day, many are asking what vaccinated people can…
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AMA: Medicare physician service spending declined $9.4B in first half of 2020
Medicare physician spending declined $9.4 billion, or 19%, in the first six months of 2020 due to the pandemic, a…
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Covid-19 news: Vaccines for new variants could be fast-tracked in UK
By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan ,…
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Meet Kunda Kids: Publishing Company Increasing Diversity In Children’s Books
Dele & Louisa Olafuyi Courtesy of Kunda Kids Diversity has been a very hot topic over the past 12 months.…
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Ancient DNA reveals clues about how tuberculosis shaped the human immune system
COVID-19 is only the latest infectious disease to have had an outsized impact on human life. A new study employing…
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Study: Heart illness rare for COVID-infected pros
Five of 789 professional athletes infected with COVID-19 were later found to have suffered inflammatory heart disease in the largest…
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AHIP, BCBSA team to boost vaccine access for seniors
America’s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association are joining forces to boost access to vaccinations for…
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Aviva plans to slash UK office space by up to 30% by end of 2021
UK insurer Aviva plans to cut up to 30% of its 1.7 million square feet office space across the UK.…
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Who will be the Mac Jones of the 2021 college football season?
I express a lot of opinions on the internet, which inevitably means that I’m wrong on the internet quite a…
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Inside Dwolla’s efforts to find a formula for faster payments
For more content like this, from the industry leader in global payments coverage, please visit PaymentsSource.com. Whether it is baseball…
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Schumacher name gives motivation every day, says Mick
Taking the Schumacher surname back into Formula One this season will be more a source of pride than pressure, Michael’s…
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For Some Solopreneurs, the Latest PPP Rules Are Bad News
With just one week to go in the Paycheck Protection Program’s exclusive 14-day lending window for companies with fewer than 20…
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Hiring Activities Rose In February, Shows Naukri JobSpeak Index
Digitisation and automation drove record sequential growth of 22% in all hiring activities in February, according to a report. Hiring…
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Mississippi is lifting COVID restrictions while thousands of residents can’t even wash their hands
Get weekly climate politics updates from Grist Subscribe to The First 100 Texas’ experience of last month’s deadly winter storm…
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931 Million Tonnes of Food Available at Consumer Levels Is Wasted per Year
Wasted in 2019: 931 million tonnes of food sold to households, retailers, restaurants and other food services; Study finds food…
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Car Sales Tanked in 2020, but Dealerships Had Their Most Profitable Year Ever
Joe Sohm/Visions of AmericaGetty Images Last year wasn’t good for new car sales. Factory shutdowns, lockdowns, and consumer hesitancy caused…
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Textile Sector Check – Global Levers Supporting Domestic Growth: Motilal Oswal
BQ Blue’s special research section collates quality and in-depth equity and economy research reports from across India’s top brokerages, asset…
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Is Google Stock A Buy? Internet Search Giant Could Finally Be Best FANG Stock In 2021
It’s still early in 2021. But will this be the year that Google stock finally out-performs other FANG stocks? Investors…
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In Lockdown Brazil, Everyone Is Watching Big Brother
(Bloomberg Opinion) — After a year battling worsening Covid-19, and with new variants on the loose, Brazilians still face bouts…
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Back to Work: What Recovery Felt Like for Millions of Americans
(Bloomberg) — It’s been a year since Covid-19 triggered the steepest economic collapse in modern U.S. history, with more than…
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Sluggish physical oil sales struggle to match futures price surge By Reuters
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An oil tanker is seen at Jose refinery cargo terminal in Venezuela in this undated file…
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NBA Second-Quarter Awards: Best Player, Team, and More
It’s been a wobbly, fraught journey, featuring more than 30 postponed games and more than 50 positive COVID-19 tests since…
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TWo Airline Titans Weigh In on the Future of Flight
(Bloomberg Opinion) — One year into the Covid-19 pandemic and a few months into the vaccine rollout, demand for air…
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Iota releases Smart Contracts Protocol alpha ahead of Coordicide rollout
The Iota protocol (MIOTA) is continuing its pivot toward implementing smart contracts with an alpha release of IOTA Smart Contracts…
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Here’s what City firms make of the Budget
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered a budget that he said is designed to “protect jobs and the livelihoods of…
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Reopening of Long-Term Care Facilities Is ‘an Absolute Necessity for Our Well-Being’
Judith Graham For nearly a year, nursing homes and assisted living centers have been mostly closed to visitors. Now, it’s…
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‘Capital holiday’ expiration looms; retail stock traders target Rocket Cos.
Wall Street Journal Holiday deadline looms The recent drop in Treasury bond prices might get even worse if a “capital…
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Flash rally in Bank of Japan shares leaves brokers perplexed
Shares in the Bank of Japan surged on Thursday for a fourth consecutive session, putting them more than 90 per…
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Large hospital chains post profits in 2020 thanks to higher acuity and liquidity
Greater liquidity, a stable payer mix and higher-acuity patients helped major hospital chains end 2020 with massive profits despite a…
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Capgemini To Cover Vaccination Cost For India Employees, Their Dependents
French information technology major Capgemini on Thursday said it will cover the cost of the Covid-19 vaccination for all eligible…
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How Leaders Can Reimagine a More Inclusive Workplace After Covid-19
Nearly a full year into working from home, most of us have learned to straddle a fine line between work…
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